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A review by madscibrarian
The Sorcerer Heir by Cinda Williams Chima
3.0
I'm a little between 3 and 4 stars for this book.... Goodreads doesn't do a 3.5, and I am stubborn and will only use their scale. I liked the book before this much better as it got me to care about the two main characters, Emma and Jonah. This one though.... it seemed to try to hard to force some drama on them, both on their relationship and on the individual characters themselves. I was still interested to see what happens and how their story ends, but there seemed to just be a lot of fluff drama. The book dragged on for a bit somewhere for the middle but finally picked up again when it was about 3/4 of the way though or so.
The plot did get a little confusing towards the end as well. I'm not quite sure what happens to the shades (zombies) at the end, but maybe I breezed through it too fast as I was just trying to finish it before bed.
The book does have an ending but it didn't leave me quite satisfied. Mostly satisfied, but not fully. I was under the impression that this was the final book in the series, but who knows as this series initially started as a stand alone novel, then released a companion book, then was expanded to a trilogy, and then two more books were ordered by popular demand.
I still like these last two more than the first three books, but popular opinion seems to be the reverse. I just thought these characters, Jonah and Emma, were more interesting than the ones from the original trilogy, so I liked them more. The plot was probably better in the first 3 books though. The overall plot line for this was just weird.
Overall I am leaning more towards 3 stars, rounding down, as I appear to have written more of a negative review. It's still really good, and you should finish if you read the last book. =)
The plot did get a little confusing towards the end as well. I'm not quite sure what happens to the shades (zombies) at the end, but maybe I breezed through it too fast as I was just trying to finish it before bed.
The book does have an ending but it didn't leave me quite satisfied. Mostly satisfied, but not fully. I was under the impression that this was the final book in the series, but who knows as this series initially started as a stand alone novel, then released a companion book, then was expanded to a trilogy, and then two more books were ordered by popular demand.
I still like these last two more than the first three books, but popular opinion seems to be the reverse. I just thought these characters, Jonah and Emma, were more interesting than the ones from the original trilogy, so I liked them more. The plot was probably better in the first 3 books though. The overall plot line for this was just weird.
Overall I am leaning more towards 3 stars, rounding down, as I appear to have written more of a negative review. It's still really good, and you should finish if you read the last book. =)